Information for U.S. and International First-Year Applicants For Fall 2018

Beginning work on your application early will allow you time to give more attention to your essays
and the submission of other materials. A file for your application materials will be created when
Part 1 of your
application has been received.

Visit Days

Fall Samplers on Friday, September 29
and Friday, October 6 are day-long programs that include campus tours, class visits, a student panel, info session,
opportunities to meet students and professors, and more.

Fall Micro Visit Days on Thursday, October 19 and
Friday, October 20 are half-day programs that include an introduction to Macalester, campus tours, and breakout
sessions.
Why Macalester

“Mac incorporates topics, ideas, theories, literature and events that relate to the vast
gray area between what is considered right and wrong in politics and
foreign policy.”

—Salman Haji
Albuquerque, New Mexico

After Mac: Master’s American University. International Affairs and recipient of the
Thomas R. Pickering Undergraduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship